Beauty Scoop! New Summer Beauty

Beauty Scoop! New Summer Beauty

We’ve had quite a lot of exciting makeup and beauty launches happen recently, and just in time for summer! Here’s a round-up of a few summer essentials you NEED to know about… Smashbox Photo Filter Creamy Powder Foundation I LOVE these! Think of them as a photo filter in a compact! These new foundations offer fantastic coverage, and even better, they look amazing on camera! Perfect for those selfies and instagram feeds! They have a creamy, powder finish as the name suggests and contain light filtering technologies that reflect our pigment’s true colour, while still offering coverage. They also contain a Photoset polymer with liquid bandage technology which means they adhere to the skin in a non-streaky way that’s oil free and doesn’t cake. 10 out of 10! Available in: 10 Shades Price: R425 each Find them at: Selected Woolies, Foschini, Edgars and Red Square Stores YSL Couture Palettes These beautiful eyeshadow compacts from YSL Beauté are amazing! In celebrating “50 Years of Edgy Beauty”, YSL created eight different eyeshadow palettes, each one inspired by an iconic fashion moment from the house of YSL’s history. The range includes beautifully designed compacts, inspired by Yves Saint Laurent’s ‘Mondrian’ dress that he designed as a tribute to the famous painter…

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Make Your Eyeshadow Last All Day with Smashbox 24 Hour Photo Finish Shadow Primer

Make Your Eyeshadow Last All Day with Smashbox 24 Hour Photo Finish Shadow Primer

Miracle product? Oh Yes! I’ve always had a problem keeping my eye shadow looking flawless, and I have just the thing if you suffer from the same annoying makeup snag. It’s the new Smashbox 24Hour Photo Finish Shadow Primer and I promise you gals, it’s a genie in bottle – well, a tube actually. I use good quality shadow, all the right brushes and do everything right when it comes to applying eye shadow, but I skip one important step… Primer! I’ve used primers before and while they helped a little, nothing (that I’ve tried at least) has made such an impressive impact. My eyelids tend to get greasy – I don’t know if it’s the shape of my eye, the skin on my lids, or maybe I’m just an over-blinker! But, no matter what, no matter how much time I spent doing my makeup, my shadow would always look good to start with, but after a couple of hours, all my blending efforts would’ve been wasted. Now, my eye shadow remains exactly how I’ve applied it in the morning, and it stays put all day. And it’s all thanks to Smashbox 24Hour Photo Finish Shadow Primer. I apply a…

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